Word: halcyon
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...those who are less charitably inclined, there are a myriad of self-indulgent organizations to explore. If you miss the halcyon days of medieval times, you can help The Society for Creative Anachronism recreate them. For those with even more active imaginations there is the Harvard Investment Association. Pretend you are Gordon Gecko. Pretend you live on the Upper West Side. Prepare for 100-hour weeks punching numbers...
...just good for the Indians, which went to the World Series last year; they are about as good as they can get, and the club will tell you as much. That leaves but one direction to go: down. And what's really troublesome is that even in these halcyon days for the Indians, the team is only marginally profitable. Last year, the company as it is currently configured would have posted net income of only $6.9 million, and that includes a one-time shot of $9.3 million from league-expansion proceeds and income from 18 of a potential 19 postseason...
...Corbusier was the most important architect of the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright was more prolific--Le Corbusier's built oeuvre comprises about 60 buildings--and many would argue he was more gifted. But Wright was a maverick; Le Corbusier dominated the architectural world, from that halcyon year of 1920, when he started publishing his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, until his death in 1965. He inspired several generations of architects--including this author--not only in Europe but around the world. He was more than a mercurial innovator. Irascible, caustic, Calvinistic, Corbu was modern architecture's conscience...
...those two-and-a-half years between 1968 (and the "opening" of Lamont) and 1971 (the beginning of the coresidential experiment), Radcliffe had a brief halcyon spell and the best of both worlds. We had then, at the ages of 17, 18, 19, 20, protective nurturing from a college that existed exclusively for us, in tandem with untrammeled access to Harvard's faculty, libraries and classrooms. Perhaps even more importantly, we had the privilege of being introduced into a community of women, then physically still intact, that would prove in after years an even more invaluable resource...
However, this season it seems that those halcyon days of dominance may be over...